The only time Viacom's argument had sway with any particular court was in Italy, and it involved not intellectual property violations, but a video of a kid being bullied. YouTube took it down after a complaint was lodged, but not fast enough for the satisfaction of the Italian courts. The case is under appeal, but the convicted senior Google officials aren't visiting Italy any time soon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8533695.stm David ________________________________ From: David Lynch <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, July 4, 2010 12:09:30 PM Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Official YouTube channels don't work on the iPad I suspect, actually, that it's big media vs. any medium of distribution they don't completely control (i.e., the internet in general, and especially any video site other than Hulu.) Viacom had a suit against YouTube recently, claiming that they should be responsible for screening all of the uploaded videos (that's 29 hours of video per second, on the average, so at eight hours a day of nothing but watching video, five days a week, that's a staff of 438,400 required) for copyrighted content, which was thrown out on the grounds that Google was complying with the law as it stood. One of the things that came out during the discovery process was that Viacom's lawyers had sent takedown notices for large numbers of videos that had been uploaded by Viacom's marketers onto unofficial channels in efforts to create buzz. Also revealed at some point in the process: e-mails between Viacom executives arguing over who would get control of YouTube after they won the lawsuit. The hubris was impressive. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 22:01, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Wesley McGee <[email protected]> wrote: >> So, are you the casualty of the Apple/Adobe War (aka, the Flash War of 2010) >> or the Apple/Google War? >> >> (Don't own either an iPad or iPhone... in fact, only got a mobile phone last >> month, and deliberately picked the most basic only-make-calls model at >> that.) > > Well, Google owns YouTube, so I think that war is to blame. > > So far, the only network that has gone above and beyond in providing > content for the iPad is ABC, and I don't watch any ABC shows. > > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- David J. Lynch [email protected] -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
